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Welcome to the Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia, the portal for the 2SLGBTQ+ / Queer / Q community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

The goal of the Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia is to have a page for every person, place, thing and event of relevance to the Q community in Halifax, ever. As of January, 2022 we have over six hundred thousand words in two thousand finished pages, works-in-progress, or article stubs, and about thirty five hundred images and several dozen hours of audio and video recordings.

The Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia (H•R•E) is designed for easy storage and retrieval of facts, stories, and indexes to the locations of others. Here are some tips for doing research.

Starting Points for Particularly Q Things In Halifax

• Upcoming Events Calendar: LocalEvents
• Bars: See GayBars for a half century of history.
• Non Bar Hangouts: GayHangouts
• SportsGroups: LooseEndsCurling, QueerHockeyNovaScotia, HalifaxRainbowDodgeball, EastCoastRainbowSoftballAssociation, and more.
• Social Groups: SocialGroups
• Religion and Spirituality: ReligiousGroups
• Here's a walking tour of Q historical places in Halifax
• Journalism: Wayves Magazine
• Facebook groups: Wayves Magazine; LGBTI Atlantic and World News; Homes For Queers Halifax; Trans Family Nova Scotia; HALIFAX Bears; Halifax Queer Exchange; Lesbians in Halifax; Halifax Gay Men's and Womans Social Group; Get Out Halifax!; Gays in Halifax
• The table of contents for this site. Warning: huge.

This is a collaborative work in wiki format. If you want to help make the Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia better, check out TipsForContributors.

Features And Projects

• The encyclopedia has a lot of history of Halifax's Q Community: the HistoryProject
• A couple big reads about historical gay life in Halifax:
  • RegGiles' story cycle, Peanut Butter And Jam Sandwich
  • ScottMacNeil's Reflections In A Mirror Ball
• A showcase of the city's DragQueens
• Academic papers on local queer life

The Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia has been online since 2001 and is published by Bonmot Publishing.

There's a history of the Encyclopedia here: AboutThisSystem